Laura Parker’s work focuses on agriculture, the environment and social structure. As an interdisciplinary artist she works in drawing, painting, artists books, and installation. In 2001 Parker began her installation work with a project called LandScape: The Farmer as Artist. The project included a public lecture series and pieces produced in collaboration with the local farming community and the public. Taste of Place is an investigation into the relationship between the soil, food and people of given places and the impact of this connection on the individuals who experience them. Parker’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Venues include Copia Center for Food, Wine, & the Arts; Triton Museum of Art; Sonoma County Museum; New Langton Arts; Root Division; 2007 Garage Biennale; San Francisco Public Library’s Jewett Gallery; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- de Young Museum, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany; MR Gallerie and the Chateau de Nieuil, France. Parker was nominated for a Fleishhacker Foundation, Eureka Fellowship Program for Visual Artists Grant, 2008-2010. She has received grants from the California Council of the Humanities, Veritable Vegetable, Artist for Agriculture, and a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant in 2007.
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Chris Leib has a background in anthropology, and began doing interactive computer art in 1992. His first installation, It was the last night in my Father’s house, focused on journal entries chronicling his Grandmother’s immigration to the United States and San Francisco. He has since focused on contemporary realist painting. His work has been widely shown, including the cities of San Francsico, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Santa Fe, New York, and Paris. He has had residencies and has done demonstrations at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- deYoung Museum and at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. He received a George Sugarman Foundation grant and a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant in 2007.